MA Participation, Power and Social Change Linking practice, theory and reflection

The Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University (UK), offers a unique 18-month Master's degree that gives development workers the opportunity to critically reflect on their practice and build knowledge and skills while continuing to work. The MA combines two terms of academic study with one year of work-based action research, in which students inquire into challenges related to participation, power...

Thanks to the head's up from Alison Martin: "The Garden," one of the U.S.'s Academy Award nominees for Best Documentary Feature ( www.blackvalleyfilms.com). It would be a great resource for teaching.

UIW Department of Psychology is offering a new program: The MS in Community Psychology. The program will prepare students for both further scholarship and applied work towards implementing change in our institutions (schools, faith-based communities, law enforcement, criminal justice, cultural institutions, and mass media) and society. The program emphasizes community-based interventions and environmental strategies rather than individual counseling / psychotherapy, and focuses on...

The Last Straw! A Board Game on the Social Determinants of Health©, Developed by Kate Rossiter and Kate Reeve.The Last Straw! is a fun and exciting teaching tool on the social determinants of health. The game has three objectives: 

• to promote discussion about the social determinants of health;
• to help players build empathy with marginalized people and gain an awareness of players' own social location;
• to encourage learning in a fun and supportive environment.

In keeping with current research...

HEALTH & SOCIAL JUSTICE FILMS

California Newsreel, producer of UNNATURAL CAUSES, has just released a small catalogue of its other recent documentaries on Health & Social Justice available on DVD.  Titles include:

HEALTH FOR SALE:  Scrutinizes the drug development and global marketing practices of Big Pharma.

THE BELOVED COMMUNITY:  Sarnia, the nerve center of Canada's petrochemical industry, once enjoyed the highest standard of living in the country, but now confronts a deadly toxic...

The APA SES Report from 2006 has been posted here and includes useful resources for teaching about SES in CP classrooms.